[ansel12]

Sweden and Finland didn’t seek out NATO membership to get into a war, they sought it to stay out of war.

[rxh4n1]

“Sweden and Finland didn’t seek out NATO membership to get into a war, they sought it to stay out of war.”

Nuts. They joined because Russia is a weak paper tiger and can’t do much about it. They wouldn’t have dared to join if the old Soviet Union was still a going concern.